4 Months, 3rd Retightening

As you all can guess I have been busy enjoying my grand daughter whom I call Tinkerbell however her name is Chavea.

Well as I embark on 4 months of this wonderful journey, I have not many disappointments this has been a great journey for me. I think it is because of several reasons but I have to give props to my consultant for having faith that I would take great care of such short locs when they were first installed. The normal length for installation being 3 inches where I only had 2 inches with 1 1/2 in some areas.

Sometimes I wish my locs were longer so that I can style them like I have seen so many of my SL sisters do, I am patient as I know in time I will be twisting, roller setting and most of all using permanent color soon enough.

I have notice a great deal of growth in the past 4 months, more growth then I thought I would experience. My Honey,Daughters and Co-workers are always commenting on how much my hair has grown in these four months. Its amazing how much others are watching my hair, my co-workers even notice when I get my hair re-tightened both sisters of color and Caucasian co-workers alike take notice of my locs its growth and when I color...(how could they not notice when I color being over 50% grey)...LOL gotta love those greys one good thing about the grey I definitely know how much my hair has grown.

If you notice below I posted prepping for semi-coloring dated 12/27/08 however I actually colored the morning I was retightened, which made it a little difficult for Ms. Agape Locks to see the parts as she was retighting my locs...Sorry Agage Locks much love.

It took us about 5 hours to retighten as some of my locs in the rear love to hug each other, but not as bad as with my 2nd retightening. Guess that means I getting better at separating after shampooing, actually I think it's because I shampooed during waking hours as opposed to just before retiring for the night.

I have not had to much slipping thank God as I have read so many blogs about the slippage. I am progressing well on my journey, I can even condition now to get a softer look which I am so happy about because my locs are a little stiff, soft but not as relaxed as I would like (probably mostly due to the grey, as my consultant keeps kindly telling me grey hair does what it wants to do when you want it to lay down it wants to stand up).

If you notice on my pics there is a section in the back that just will not come together always leaving a bit of a gap between the locs making it look like I have a bald section back there and I don't....so I am hoping that conditioning will help those locs lay better. Here are the pics of my 4th month with SL....and Yes I am still in love with my Lovely SL's..

My First Grand Daughter Makes a Unexpected Entrance

We were expecting our little bundle of joy the week of Feb 10-14th 2009. Unfortunately my dear baby (Brittany) had to be induced due to our little bundle of love not receiving enough nutrients via the placenta. Our little girl was only weighing 4#'s at 37 weeks gestation showing that my daughter should be due around March 10th. My Brittany confirmed her dates where correct and the Ultrasounds were compared hence the need to be induced as Mommie knew best...

We headed off to the hospital both of my daughters (mommie to be and my youngest), we were admitted on 1/20 at 1pm... We were hoping to have a Inaugration Day Baby...

Brittany handled her labor well with I has her coach (as I am a trained labor/delivery doula) she did absolutely wonderful No SCREAMING or acting out. At 3:19pm 1/21/09 she delivered Chavea Entenye Coyle-Hodges a beautiful little might I add tiny little girl whom I call my Tinker Bell...as for me I am now SweetieGrams...not ready to be called Grandmom just yet though I am sure I will admire this term of endearment later. LOL

Tinker Bell (Chavea) came in weighing 4#'s 1oz. 18 inches... she now weighs 3#'s 13oz she has spent her first 48 hours in intensive care, she is now in continued care as she is a little jaundice hopefully she will be able to come home by weeks end. She is doing well, eating and pooping she's a strong little girl..Thanks God there are no major worries....Send Prayers for our Baby Girl... Thanks

Truly Three Months 2nd Re-Tightening

Happy New Year, All....I spent the New Year alone Mediating and Praying by choice, I needed some reflection time and what better time is there to reflect then ending one year and beginning another by the Grace of The Holy Spirit.

My three month anniversary is actually Jan 6th & 7th, just a few days away. This is my second re-tightening you know the 1st one thats not included in the SisterLock package.. hahaha. Fortunately I have a very gracious SL Consultant God Blessed me with Ms. Laura of Agapelocs blogspot. It took 6 hrs, I had quite a bit of fused locks in the back that Ms. Laura had to seperate...Guess I didn't do such a good job seperating after coloring...Thanks again to you Ms. Laura for not draining a Sista's pocket and taking your time to make my babies look Good!!!1

It's amazing how many people stop to take a look, when I am in Ms. Laura's chair in the Salon where she currently works. There was a lady there on this day who kind of just watched from behind, slowly she began to ask questions and another Sista walked by realizing Ms. Laura was doing SL's...this young lady was familiar with SL's as she had worn traditional locks in the past. Back to the previous Lady, she seemed very interested so Ms. Laura and I began to tell her about my journey starting with 2 inches of hair how much my hair has grown in less then 3 months.

Ms. Lady seems like she will be taking a journey to SL's website and viewing the many Bloggers journeys with SL's. She was the first person who actually asked to feel my hair while getting it done in the salon, which I did not mind one bit. If it means helping a Sista stop the LYE (Perming)I am there to assist.

Now onto my older sister who wants locks badly, of course money is the issue with SL's. My sister is a self taught braider who micro braids her own hair. I suggested to her why not start braidlocks/micro braidlocks.....Again bless her heart she asked me "what did your SL consultant put on your hair to lock it" Again I told her "Nothing" "Notta" mind you my Sis has asked me this every month since I got SL's locks....Her computer is down...I can't wait til she gets it running or another one so she can research all the sites I have given her....I swear if she ask me again what was put on my hair (chemical) one more time I told her I am taking the next plane smoking to Florida,and strangle her...LMAO


One more amazing thing, I guess my man has been paying more attention to my journey then I realized. I noticed New Years Eve he kept running his fingers through my locks, I just let the man play to his hearts content.... (I know TMI)As I was putting on my lip gloss (you know it was popping) ok back to adult life...LOL I walked pass my Sweetie and for the first time since getting my SL's he said..."Your hair looks good Baby"....I was like OMG...shocked.

Here's Angel Locs Truly Three Months, they are getting some length I think I need to start training them...any suggestions?

2nd time coloring on my own using semi-permanent color

The 1st time I colored, I did not post any prepping information for those who have not reached six months and are not yet ready to use permanent color and who are afraid they will mess up their locks. I here what I did to prep, with the help of my 14 y.o. daughter who got my scalp, neck,ears etc. Bless her Sweet little heart, she was helping her Mom.(this coloring was actually done 2/7/09)



Regarding hair coloring, my SL consultant is also a licensed cosmetologist for many years therefore, I trust what she tells me...to prep for my color since my hair is shorter I use baby hair clips to band my hair however I did use the rubber bands on the longer sections.

My consultant adviced me to use Kiss as it has no ammonia, no peroxide or ingredients that will cause your locks to swell and slip. This product is recommended for Natural Hair,Gray Coverage and Chemically Treated Hair(but we are not concerned with that)...LOL


Supplies: rubber bands to band your hair as you would in prepping to shampoo. And baby hair clip for shorter/delicate lock.

Perm/Color brush
Bowl
Gloves
Kiss semi-permanent color

To begin I clipped the shorter locks and banded the longer locks (with the help of my daughter, Wyvolen)

After sectioning and banding, I put a(small amount) of the Kiss Color into the bowl.

Using the brush I applied color only to the roots of my hair. (make sure you use gloves as the color will definately stain anything it touches)

After applying the color I left the color in to set for 25 minutes. You can sit under a dryer, which was recommended by Laura my SL consultant, but because I hate sitting under a dryer I just waiting 25 minutes.

After waiting 25 minutes, I rinsed my hair until the water ran clear.

After rinsing, I shampooed my hair with SL's shampoo. Then let my hair air dry.



Remember this is a rinse (semi-permanent color) therefore a little color will wash out with every shampoo. It depends on how often you shampoo how long the color will last. Thus determining how often you will need to re-color,until you can use permanent hair color.


Don't be scurred (LOL), If I can do it and not screw my locks up you can to!

Two Months Three Weeks Twice as Nice being Naturally Me

This is my Two Month 3 week anniversary and I am still loving my SL's, I think I am more in Love now then I was on my installation day. I am enjoying this process, although at times my SL's want to go into directions of their own. I guess its training time...LOL

I spoke with to my SL trainee last night, after she viewed my blog.
She informed me that she is no longer a trainee, she is officially a Certified Sister Lock Consultant therefore I have to send a shout out to Ms. Laura of
Agape Locs blog. Congratulations Laura, I will stop calling you my SL's trainee you are the Best SL Consultant this side of Arizona. KUDO's to you.

CORRECTION THE PIC'S BELOW ARE MY LOCKS AT TWO MONTHS NOT THREE

Many things to Celebrate..This Christmas

First and Foremost I would like to say Merry Christmas to all My SL/Trad Lock/BraidLock family I pray that all had a safe Christmas Celebration, equally I pray that all will have a safe and happy 2009...HAPPY NEW YEARS TO YOU ALL!!!!

This Christmas I was given a precious gift, as I have mentioned in older post I am expecting my first GrandChild on Valentines Day (of course we know the baby will come when its good and ready) It's a Girl....

During the course of my daughters pregnancy my daughter decided she wanted to move back to Cleveland, Ohio to have the baby....Can you imagine my devastation (19 year olds, just want to hang them sometimes)...LOL...

Well my baby decided to come back to Arizona to have the baby...The wonderful man in my life knew I did not have the funds to bring her home(back to Arizona)...so he suprised me and purchased her a one way ticket to fly back home (at 32wks of pregnancy)....This was one of my Christmas presents...what a wonderful gift...to be able to have my daughter back here to experience the last phase of her pregnancy and to be with her to go through Labor...(Ladies we all know she was going to need her Mommie) I just started a new job and wasn't sure if I would have been able to get to her in Ohio....Praise God, I will be able to be with her....

Here is my Expectant Daughter on Christmas along with her Sister, and The Expectant Grandmother..



Look at the Belly of Love...She's going to Kill me for Blogging this,maybe not its all over her MySpace...








Am I loving this soon to be Grandma thing or What....LOL (check out those Locks)

Had to Color

Ok Nubian1 and I have been trying to deal with our silver as best as we can. Sorry Nubi I could not take it LOOOOOONGGGEERRRR. After consulting with my SL trainee, following her guidance I decided to color my SL's myself using a semi-permanent color by KISS I used Sienna Brown which actually darken my hair just a tad bit, I look forward to permanent color in three month...Going Red..Stay Tuned...